“I remember walking up to those college doors and going in to my college at sixth form and getting the envelope and opening up that envelope and seeing the grades on there and feeling just absolute delight as the sudden realisation that actually all my dreams of that next step of doing social science at Bradford University opened up.”

British politician

Sir Gavin Alexander Williamson is a British politician, active in the Conservative Party, born in 1976. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, formerly South Staffordshire, since 2010. He held several Cabinet posts between 2016 and 2022. Those included Government Chief Whip, Secretary of State for Defence, Secretary of State for Education, and Minister of State without Portfolio, under Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Rishi Sunak. His public profile is tied to parliamentary leadership and ministerial office.